"I Feel the Earth Move" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Carole King, for her second studio album Tapestry (1971).
Jon Landau's review of Tapestry for Rolling Stone praised Carole King's voice on this track, saying it negotiates turns from "raunchy" to "bluesy" to "harsh" to "soothing", with the last echoing the development of the song's melody into its chorus.
[3] AllMusic critic Stewart Mason describes the song as "the ultimate in hippie-chick eroticism" and writes that it "sounds like the unleashing of an entire generation of soft-spoken college girls' collective libidos".
The single also reached number 25 on the US Billboard Hot 100 but quickly fell down the chart after radio stations pulled it from their playlists in the wake of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.
In 1989, British boy band Big Fun recorded their version of the song, which was intended to be released as a single, but was eventually only one of the songs on the B-side of their single "Can't Shake the Feeling", and was included on their 1990 album A Pocketful of Dreams, produced by the Stock Aitken Waterman team, on which it appears as a bonus track on the CD and cassette formats.
Brix Smith of Record Mirror panned this version he called a "massacre", adding that the fact of "discofy[ing]" the track shows "a lack of imagination, avarice, and insensitivity to music".